The
Milroy American Legion baseball team was the runner-up in
a tournament at Springfield Saturday. Milroy beat .
Wabasso 4-3 and Springfield 10-5 before losing to Sleepy
Eye in the finals 10-2.

Derek Radke scattered seven hits in the Wabasso
victory. Matt Bauer led the Milroy eight hit attack by
going 2 for 3 including a home run. Ross Ladehoff was 2
for 3 and had an RBI. Radke helped his own cause with a
double.

In the victory over Springfield, Bauer held
Springfield to no hits through the fourth inning but
found his team trailing 4-0. Milroy broke through for 10
runs in the fifth inning to break the game open.

Ross Ladehoff had another 2 for 3 game to lead the
attack while Pat Spielman was 2 for 4 and Sean Castle had
a home run.

In the championship game Sleepy Eye's Andy Cook bested
Milroy's Brett Jackson to take a 10-2 victory.

VFW baseball can't rally from
early deficit

The Tracy VFW baseball team lost to Hector last
Thursday 10-7. Tracy's league record is 3.5.

"We dug ourselves a deep hole in the first inning
and we just couldn't get out of it," said Tracy
Coach Bill Tauer. "

Hector had a big first inning scoring 5 runs to take a
5-2 lead . That lead mounted to 7-3 before Tracy put up 3
runs in the fifth inning to close to 7-6. However Hector
scored 3 more runs in the sixth inng to more than match
the 1 run Tracy put on the scoreboard in the seventh
inning.

"The boys battled back but we couldn't come up
with the big play in the late innings," observed
Tauer.

Chris Swenson started and pitched 2/3 of an inning
giving up 5 runs on 4 hits while walking 3. Lucas Walling
relieved him and pitched 2 1/3 innings giving up 2 runs
on 4 hits while walking 1 and striking out 2. Derek
Daniels finished the game and gave up 3 runs on 3 hits
while walking none and striking out 5.

Daniels banged out 3 hits in 4 times at bat to lead
the 9 hit attack while Sean Castle went 2 for 4.

Junior Olympic team is in Texas
for national tourney

Ten Balaton, Milroy, and Tracy area athletes are
competing in the National U.S. Junior Olympic Volleyball
Tournament in Houston, Texas, this week.